Historicism And Cultural Relativism Actually Are A

We Are Like Ignorant Shepherds Living On A Site Where Great Civilizations Once Flourished.

Social Science And Humanities ... Have A Mutual Contempt For One Another, The Former Looking Down On The Latter As Unscientific, The Latter Regarding The Former As Philistine. ... The Difference Comes Down To The Fact That Social Science Really Wants To Be Predictive, Meaning That Man Is Predictable, While The Humanities Say That He Is Not.

Nothing Is More Singular About This Generation Than Its Addiction To Music.

The Old View Was That Delicacy Of Language Was Part Of The Nature, The Sacred Nature, Of Eros And That To Speak About It In Any Other Way Would Be To Misunderstand It. What Has Disappeared Is The Risk And The Hope Of Human Connectedness Embedded In Eros. Ours Is A Language That Reduces The Longing For An Other To The Need For Individual, Private Satisfaction And Safety.

Professors Of Greek Forget Or Are Unaware That Thomas Aquinas, Who Did Not Know Greek, Was A Better Interpreter Of Aristotle Than Any Of Them Have Proved To Be, Not Only Because He Was Smarter But Because He Took Aristotle More Seriously.